Champion Bahraini runner Mariam Jamal, originally from Ethiopia, has helped put Bahrain’s name on the map in the world of women’s athletics. No stranger to controversy, Ms Jamal was condemned by a Bahrain MP for allegedly wearing indecent sportswear when she won gold in the 3,000-metres at the Oslo Golden League last year. But she [...]
A photography workshop is being held at Alriwaq Art Gallery, in Adliya, from May 6 to 10. The Moving Walls Workshop aims to help photographers develop a documentary approach to their subjects. It will be conducted by Edward Grazda, who studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design, US. Applications for the workshop, comprising [...]
A cultural exchange programme has been initiated by an award-winning German author and renowned Bahraini poet Qassim Haddad. Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair 2006 prize for his novel Die Weltensammler (The Collector of Worlds), Ilija Trojanow, 41, and Mr Haddad are collaborating in a joint literary project. Mr Trojanow was also in Bahrain to [...]
A candlelit vigil, held to pay tribute to the victims of the Al Dana boat tragedy, has sparked a controversy in Bahrain after Salafist MP Shaikh Adel Al Mouawda condemned it as a peculiar activity that is not condoned by Islam. “The practice of holding a candlelit vigil is totally inappropriate and must be boycotted [...]
Organisers of Area 77 Rock Concert held on Wednesday at the Gulf Air Club in Salmabad, dismissed reports that the party was a Satanic cult meeting. Concert sponsor Jameela Mohanna, who attended the event with her two-year-old daughter, said yesterday the event was like any other rock concert and in no way had Satanical affiliations. [...]
As a DJ for 50 Cent, I have been able to travel the world. Most recently we toured countries like Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Thailand. As the tour came to end, 50 Cent went to Morocco to start on his new movie with Samuel L. Jackson and I began my own tour, the “Sada [...]
An Islamic scholar has come to the defence of a European man who allegedly threw a copy of extracts from the Quran in a waste bin. The restaurant manager was sacked from his job and has since left the country, after he was said to have desecrated the Holy book. An MP also filed a [...]
A Bahraini MP yesterday called for the gradual introduction of Sharia (Islamic) law to deal with all criminals. Another claimed that thieves should have their hands chopped off because “God ordered us to do so”. However, one described the punishment as unfair if adulterers are not stoned. The comments were made in parliament yesterday as [...]
An incident in which a Western manager at a Bahraini company allegedly desecrated the Holy Quran was an accident, his employer said yesterday. But the man was sacked on the spot, because of the offence caused when he accidentally threw translations from the Quran into a waste bin in front of Muslim colleagues, said the [...]
Activists have rallied in Sydney as part of a national day of action against live animal exports. A small group of protesters gathered at Neutral Bay, on Sydney’s north shore, to highlight a recent investigation by Animals Australia into the handling and slaughter of animals in the Middle East. Animal Liberation NSW spokesman Angie Stephenson [...]
